When the Bear Comes to Town: How the City Could Create Nature

The relationship between humans and nature is in permanent change. Where the city and nature used to be seen as enemies that needed to be kept away from each other, the current paradigm looks at a more symbiotic relationship. In this, man is seen as part of nature, and the city is seen as a determining factor in providing conditions for a rich...

Missie Kennisregio aan Zee 2070: Ruimtelijke voorwaarden voor duurzame economische ontwikkeling en een leefbare toekomst van de Zuid-Hollandse kustregio

De Kennisregio aan Zee 2070 is een ruimtelijk-economische samenwerking tussen de steden Den Haag, Zoetermeer, Delft en Leiden, de provincie Zuid Holland en kennisinstellingen TU Delft, Universiteit Leiden en de Haagse Hogeschool. De missie: laat de economie bijdragen aan oplossingen voor maatschappelijke problemen; waar schaarse ruimte onze...

Cultivating Urgencies

Cultivating and stirring up urgencies: wait and plan.Spotlighting the jewels of North-Holland.Formulating new tasks to speed up housingconstruction.Quicker, cheaper, nicer, and more adaptive living through changeable and modular thinking, and becoming more sustainable by lengthening the timechain (prefab to the max).Architecture students are...

Shaping Communities

Importance of the region as integrating level.Doing more in less space.Through systemintegration, we can become an energy-supplying society.Making connections between themes and sectors.Building on communities of education, interdisciplinarity, society, and professional practice.

Realizing Emergent Ecologies: Nature-Based Solutions from Design to Implementation

The current state of nature is concerning. The levels of biodiversity are rapidly decreasing; existing policies sketch ambitious objectives, but their effectiveness is relatively low. This is caused by a combination of three main elements: physical elements, planning processes, and psychological reasons. In dealing with these deeply rooted...

Nature-Based Deployment Strategies for Multiple Paces of Change: The Case of Oimachi, Japan

In this article a planning approach is proposed to accommodate different paces of urbanisation. Instead of responding to a single problem with a Pavlov-type of response, analysis shows that the transformational tempi of different urban landscapes require multiple deployment strategies to develop urban environments that are sustainable and...

Nature-Based Urbanization: Scan Opportunities, Determine Directions and Create Inspiring Ecologies

To base urbanization on nature, inspiring ecologies are necessary. The concept of nature-based solutions (NBS) could be helpful in achieving this goal. State of the art urban planning starts from the aim to realize a (part of) a city, not to improve natural quality or increase biodiversity. The aim of this article is to introduce a planning...

Designing the Adaptive Landscape: Leapfrogging Stacked Vulnerabilities

In the Anthropocene, climate impacts are expected to fundamentally change the way we live in, and plan and design for, our cities and landscapes. Long-term change and uncertainty require a long view, while current planning approaches and policy making are mostly short-term oriented and are therefore not well suited to respond adequately. The...

Urban Energy Masterplanning: Approaches, Strategies, and Methods for the Energy Transition in Cities

Many cities across the world have the ambition of becoming carbon neutral, but exact figures of progress toward that goal are limited. Regarding Europe’s not overly ambitious 2020 carbon emission targets, many countries still have a long way to go (see Fig. 1), with cities as the prime objects for improvement. It is fair to say that the energy...

Design Charette of the Don River watershed; final report

On May the 29th the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Toronto and Waterfront Toronto hosted the Canada – Netherlands Resilient Cities Summit: ‘Planning and Design in a Changing Climate’. Before and in parallel to this summit, a collaborative student design charrette, including students from Delft University of Technology and...

Incremental change, transition or transformation? optimising change pathways for climate adaptation in spatial planning

In order to incorporate climate adaptation in spatial planning change is required, because climate change impacts the way we live. This implies that spatial planning, as the arranger of the spatial organisation and layout needs to be able to support this change. Current spatial planning is not yet well equipped to play this role. In this...

Swarm Planning: The Development of a Spatial Planning Methodology to Deal with Climate Adaptation

Adaptation to climate change is seen as relatively unpredictable and wicked problem. The design of spatial plans for such a problem requires a spatial planning methodology or approach, which is able to include dynamism and flexibility. The current planning practice does not apply these kinds of approaches. Therefore the Swarm Planning...

Swarming landscapes, new pathways for resilient cities

Current spatial planning and design practice regards urban and rural spatial systems as simple systems. The proposed design strategies are often one-dimensional, one-problem and one-solution oriented. As a consequence, they often decrease the flexibility of urban systems to cope with uncertainty and the occurrence of weather extremes. Spatial...

Planning for climate change or: How wicked problems shape the new paradigm of swarm planning

Het stromende stadsgewest: Vormgeven aan de ecoregio Breda

Achtergrondinformatie bij de derde ideeënprijsvraag van de Eo Wijersstichting: "Verschuivende ruimtelijke kaders, de geschiedenis van het stadsgewestconcept", door Dr. W. Zonneveld "Het stadsgewest Breda", door Drs. Th.A.M. Reijs "Ontwerpen aan Brabant", door Ir. J.A.G.M. Broess